Greek man Antonis Mavropoulos said on Sunday he would have been the 150th passenger on the Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines Boeing plane that crashed killing all on board, however he arrived two minutes late for the flight and ground staff refused to let him on board.

Reinforcing the defence collaboration between Greece and Germany bilaterally but also at EU and NATO level, global and regional developments, as well as the 30 programmes of the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) European defence boost project, were all central elements of the talks.